Lloyd Tilghman

Lloyd Tilghman (26 January 1816-16 May 1863) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Lloyd Tilghman was born in Claiborne, Maryland on 26 January 1816, and he graduated from West Point near the bottom of his class in 1836. Tilghman worked as a railroad engineer in the American South and in Panama, and he briefly served in the US Army. On 5 July 1861, Tilghman became the colonel of a Kentucky infantry regiment of the Confederate States Army, and he served in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. He was forced to surrender Fort Henry in Tennessee to Union general Ulysses S. Grant in February 1862, and he was exchanged for John F. Reynolds in August 1862. He commanded a brigade in Mansfield Lovell's division, and he fought in the Siege of Vicksburg in 1863. He was killed when a shell fragment hit him in the chest at the Battle of Champion Hill on 16 May 1863.